The outer membrane component, YscC, of the Yop secretion machinery of Yersinia enterocolitica forms a ring-shaped multimeric complex

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 789-797

  Koster, Margot ^a,b   Bitter, Wilbert ^b   De Cock, Hans ^b   Allaoui, Abdelmounaaïm ^a   Cornelis, Guy R ^a   Tommassen, Jan ^b  

^a International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology   (Belgium)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MEMBRANE COMPONENT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SECRETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0030716279     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.6141981.x     Document Type: Article

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